Italian Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano's design has been selected for the open-air plaza portion of the San Ramon City Center, putting a big-name architect at the center of a large Bay Area office park redevelopment. In other Piano news, Design Boom describes the warped screened-glass volume he created for the Pathé Foundation's new Paris HQ as an "unexpected urban presence," which is putting it lightly. [Curbed SF; previously]
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